Ordinary diners who take part in our annual survey each spring review restaurants and leave their feedback, but we also ask them to score restaurants from 1-5 on food, service and ambience. Harden’s then uses an average of these scores and measures them against other establishments in the same price bracket to arrive at the ratings published in the guide and online.

Snippets from some of your feedback may end up in the overall Harden’s review, noticeably they appear in “double quotation marks”. The rest of our pithy, bite-sized restaurant summaries are compiled by analysing the survey data and extracting recurring themes, looking at whether or not a venue was nominated in any of our categories – like ‘favourite’ or ‘most overpriced’ – and, of course, looking at the ratings for food, service and ambience.

The Harden’s ratings indicate that a restaurant is:

exceptional very good good average poor

All reviews are compiled from survey comments and ratings, without any regard for our own personal opinions, except in cases where restaurants are too new to have been included in the survey. If you want the editors’ view on new restaurants in London you can find them in our Editors’ Review section.

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Win a hog roast lunch

Harden’s has teamed up with Blues Kitchen in Shoreditch to offer you the chance to swap your regular Sunday lunch for a delicious hog roast. On top of a hog roast for two, the prize includes starters, desserts and local beers, all on the house, so we suggest you arrive hungry.

This meal fit for a medieval king will be accompanied by the angelic sounds of a gospel choir, as part of Blues Kitchen’s Gospel Sundays.

To be in with a chance of winning this top prize, just answer the following question:

What implement is traditionally used to roast a pig?

a) a spat

b) a spit

c) a spliff

Terms & Conditions

Please send an email to editorial@hardens.com beginning with the letter to indicate your answer and the words ‘Hog Roast competition’ in the subject line. Please include your name and phone number in the body of the message. The winner will be chosen at random from correct replies received by 23.59 on 19 September 2014, and will be notified by email.

The prize is a Sunday Hog Roast for two with drinks to the value of £100. On entering this competition you agree to receive information from both Harden’s and Blues Kitchen. Your information will not be passed on to third party providers. Entrants must be 18 years of age and over.